Content Warning: multiple dog deaths
Arcadia is satire with a capital S. Perfect community built on top of a landfill. Oh and enforced by a trash golem! Or tulpa maybe. Mulder does do a lot of conjecture in this episode...
We discuss the alien nature (to us anyway) of there gated communities and the conformity therein and also the state of Mulder and Scully's fake marriage on display. There's a good deal of fun to be had in this episode despite the more horror-y than normal sting.
In software development, before you get to a release (generally version 1.0) there are few prior steps. Testing something before release is generally done in the beta stage - the thing works generally and shouldn't fall over, but there are things missing and its not at its most stable. The initial version is called alpha and might explode if poked too hard.
This next episode really needed to be held back until the beta version was complete.
Alpha wastes its guest star (Andrew Robinson - Garak in Deep Space Nine) and is borderline incoherent. We discuss all the hits! Like how the villain's plan is basically impossible, how massive dogs are made small, the bewildering ramblings of a suspected otherkin, Scully being jealous (again), and the better AND WORSE alternate intended ways the episode could have gone.
We can even make a case for this being worse than Tesos des Bichos....
Content Warning: multiple dog deaths
Arcadia is satire with a capital S. Perfect community built on top of a landfill. Oh and enforced by a trash golem! Or tulpa maybe. Mulder does do a lot of conjecture in this episode...
We discuss the alien nature (to us anyway) of there gated communities and the conformity therein and also the state of Mulder and Scully's fake marriage on display. There's a good deal of fun to be had in this episode despite the more horror-y than normal sting.
In software development, before you get to a release (generally version 1.0) there are few prior steps. Testing something before release is generally done in the beta stage - the thing works generally and shouldn't fall over, but there are things missing and its not at its most stable. The initial version is called alpha and might explode if poked too hard.
This next episode really needed to be held back until the beta version was complete.
Alpha wastes its guest star (Andrew Robinson - Garak in Deep Space Nine) and is borderline incoherent. We discuss all the hits! Like how the villain's plan is basically impossible, how massive dogs are made small, the bewildering ramblings of a suspected otherkin, Scully being jealous (again), and the better AND WORSE alternate intended ways the episode could have gone.
We can even make a case for this being worse than Tesos des Bichos....